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We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...
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Political and legal institutions affect the extent to which the real exchange rates of oil-exporting countries co …-move with the oil price. In a simple theoretical model, strong institutions insulate real exchange rates from oil price …
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of economic growth. One of the most striking features of economic development on the sub-Saharan subcontinent is the …
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Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role for institutional change and economic development in transition and developing … economies. Formal and informal institutions in such countries are often sub-par, but rather than being constrained by them …, entrepreneurship can often affect institutions and contribute to their evolution. We highlight three entrepreneurial responses to the …
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zonal pricing: zonal pricing with Available Transmission Capacity (ATC) and zonal pricing with Flow-Based Market Coupling … FBMC is employed in two stages, a day-ahead market stage and a re-dispatch stage. We show that the optimality conditions … and market clearing conditions can be reformulated as a mixed integer linear program (MILP), which is straightforward to …
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In centralized markets, producers submit detailed cost data to the day-ahead market, and the market operator decides … producers send less detailed cost information to the operator of the day-ahead market. Ideally centralized electricity markets … decentralized markets. Iterative intra-day trading in a decentralized market can also be used to sort out coordination problems …
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This paper characterizes the Nash equilibrium in a pay-as-bid (discriminatory), divisible-good, procurement auction. Demand by the auctioneer is uncertain as in the supply function equilibrium model. A closed form expression is derived. Existence of an equilibrium is ensured if the hazard rate...
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, and the market is cleared at the price of the most expensive offer needed to meet realised demand. Such markets can most …
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Investment liberalizing countries are often concerned that cross-border mergers & acquisitions, in contrast to greenfield investments, might have an adverse effect on domestic firms and consumers. However, given that domestic assets are sufficiently scarce, we identify a preemption effect and an...
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exacerbated development by better-informed venture-backed rms is used as a signal to enhance the sale price of developed …
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